Board
Eran Wyler | CEO & Founder
The recipient of numerous awards for technological excellence, Mr. Wyler has over eighteen years of experience in designing and developing state-of-the-art hardware and software solutions for leading Israeli high-tech companies. Prior to establishing InfoGin, Mr. Wyler served as senior ASIC R&D Engineer for the network system division at ECI Telecom, where he was responsible for developing intelligent optical networking ASICs and led the development of a video stream loss-less compression ASIC over SDH networks.
Prior to working at ECI Telecom, Mr. Wyler held senior R&D positions, including head of R&D for Giga software and systems house and ORAD Hi Tec Systems.
Mr. Wyler served in the Israeli intelligence force in an elite R&D unit as a hardware and software developer.
As the inventor of the InfoGin technology, Mr. Wyler's vision predicted eight years ago what today is a clear market trend - the need for surfing the real Internet on any mobile device. He is often called today to share his vision with analysts and leading industry policy makers.
Yuval Almog | Senior Managing Director and Founder, Coral Group | Chairman
Since 1986, Yuval has been a venture capitalist with Coral and prior to that spent 14 years as an entrepreneur and operating manager. Yuval focuses on investments in the information technology, communications, systems and media content sectors. Yuval currently holds or has held board of director seats in media, software, communications, systems and internet related companies. His investment track record includes market leaders such as Advanced Fibre Corporation (acquired as a public company by Tellabs, NASDAQ: "TLAB"), Macromedia (acquired as a public company by Adobe, NASDAQ: "ADBE"), and Cerus (NASDAQ: CERS).
Prior to joining the venture capital business, Yuval co-founded Zoran Corp. (NASDAQ: "ZRAN"), and was an executive with Raychem. He earned a B.A. and B.S. from the University of Alabama and a M.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Avner Schnur
Mr. Shnur holds the position of President of Astra Diamonds Manufacturers Ltd. Since 1986.
Since 1994, Mr. Schnur has served as a Director in Kardan Ltd. as well as in other Israeli companies within and related to the Kardan Group, including Talladium Holdings, Talladium Ltd., Kardan Technologies and Taldan Motors Ltd.
Mr. Schnur has also held Directional positions at Guadalup Trading & Investments Ltd. and Raitalon Ltd.
Jason Barzilay | CEO & Founder of Argoquest
Mr. Barzilay founded his first company, Cal-Circuit Sales, shortly after graduating college. Based in Los Angeles, Cal-Circuit Sales distributed computer memory products to American companies and medical institutions. In 1983, he merged Cal-Circuit Sales with Abco Sales, to form Cal-Circuit Abco, Inc. In the early 1980s Cal-Abco became the largest independent distributor of computer peripherals and memory chips in the United States, reaching more than 4.5 billion dollars in sales.
In 1986, Mr. Barzilay co-founded Packard Bell, Inc. a manufacturer of personal home computers. By the early 1990s, Packard Bell was recognized as one of the fastest growing computer companies, and by the mid-1990s it was the leading PC seller for private homes. Packard Bell was sold in over 8,000 retail outlets in the United States and in over 120 countries.
In 1993, Mr. Barzilay co-founded Reveal, a company that distributed computer peripherals and upgrades and acted as its CEO. Reveal's products were in every major computer retailer in the U.S. and Europe, and after a mere three years in the business, Reveal had projected sales of over $200 million. Deciding to pursue his life-long vision of simplifying the computing experience and enhancing communications, he founded the private venture capital firm Argoquest in 1997.
Eyal Shaked | Head of the Network Solutions Division at ECI
Eyal Shaked was appointed General Manager of the Network Solutions Division at ECI in October 2005 and is a member of ECI's Management Team. The Network Solutions Division (NSD) is responsible for all ECI products and solutions.
Mr. Shaked has over 20 years of professional experience and has been part of the ECI team since 1990. Prior to his current role, Mr. Shaked has held various positions in Research & Development and served as the vice president of the R&D of the Optical Networks Division.
Mr. Shaked holds a B.A. in electrical engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa and an M.Sc. in electrical engineering and computer science from Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Beni Kopelovitz | Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Kopelovitz has 28 years of experience in diverse Research & Development disciplines, as well as many other key management practices in the industry. Beni's experience spans all aspects of product and technology developments in a variety of areas, including digital video, image processing, computer graphics and optical communication. Prior to joining InfoGin, Beni was President and CTO at Lynx Photonic Networks, where his first position was Senior VP of R&D and COO. Beni's previous experience (during the years 1991-2000) was managing the R&D of ECI Telecom's Network System Strategic Business Unit, where he marshaled its staff growth from 20 to about 200 people. Beni's technology accomplishments include a series of significant networking and optical industry firsts.
The recipient of numerous awards for technological excellence, Mr. Wyler has over eighteen years of experience in designing and developing state-of-the-art hardware and software solutions for leading Israeli high-tech companies. Prior to establishing InfoGin, Mr. Wyler served as senior ASIC R&D Engineer for the network system division at ECI Telecom, where he was responsible for developing intelligent optical networking ASICs and led the development of a video stream loss-less compression ASIC over SDH networks.
Prior to working at ECI Telecom, Mr. Wyler held senior R&D positions, including head of R&D for Giga software and systems house and ORAD Hi Tec Systems.
Mr. Wyler served in the Israeli intelligence force in an elite R&D unit as a hardware and software developer.
As the inventor of the InfoGin technology, Mr. Wyler's vision predicted eight years ago what today is a clear market trend - the need for surfing the real Internet on any mobile device. He is often called today to share his vision with analysts and leading industry policy makers.
Yuval Almog | Senior Managing Director and Founder, Coral Group | Chairman
Since 1986, Yuval has been a venture capitalist with Coral and prior to that spent 14 years as an entrepreneur and operating manager. Yuval focuses on investments in the information technology, communications, systems and media content sectors. Yuval currently holds or has held board of director seats in media, software, communications, systems and internet related companies. His investment track record includes market leaders such as Advanced Fibre Corporation (acquired as a public company by Tellabs, NASDAQ: "TLAB"), Macromedia (acquired as a public company by Adobe, NASDAQ: "ADBE"), and Cerus (NASDAQ: CERS).
Prior to joining the venture capital business, Yuval co-founded Zoran Corp. (NASDAQ: "ZRAN"), and was an executive with Raychem. He earned a B.A. and B.S. from the University of Alabama and a M.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Avner Schnur
Mr. Shnur holds the position of President of Astra Diamonds Manufacturers Ltd. Since 1986.
Since 1994, Mr. Schnur has served as a Director in Kardan Ltd. as well as in other Israeli companies within and related to the Kardan Group, including Talladium Holdings, Talladium Ltd., Kardan Technologies and Taldan Motors Ltd.
Mr. Schnur has also held Directional positions at Guadalup Trading & Investments Ltd. and Raitalon Ltd.
Jason Barzilay | CEO & Founder of Argoquest
Mr. Barzilay founded his first company, Cal-Circuit Sales, shortly after graduating college. Based in Los Angeles, Cal-Circuit Sales distributed computer memory products to American companies and medical institutions. In 1983, he merged Cal-Circuit Sales with Abco Sales, to form Cal-Circuit Abco, Inc. In the early 1980s Cal-Abco became the largest independent distributor of computer peripherals and memory chips in the United States, reaching more than 4.5 billion dollars in sales.
In 1986, Mr. Barzilay co-founded Packard Bell, Inc. a manufacturer of personal home computers. By the early 1990s, Packard Bell was recognized as one of the fastest growing computer companies, and by the mid-1990s it was the leading PC seller for private homes. Packard Bell was sold in over 8,000 retail outlets in the United States and in over 120 countries.
In 1993, Mr. Barzilay co-founded Reveal, a company that distributed computer peripherals and upgrades and acted as its CEO. Reveal's products were in every major computer retailer in the U.S. and Europe, and after a mere three years in the business, Reveal had projected sales of over $200 million. Deciding to pursue his life-long vision of simplifying the computing experience and enhancing communications, he founded the private venture capital firm Argoquest in 1997.
Eyal Shaked | Head of the Network Solutions Division at ECI
Eyal Shaked was appointed General Manager of the Network Solutions Division at ECI in October 2005 and is a member of ECI's Management Team. The Network Solutions Division (NSD) is responsible for all ECI products and solutions.
Mr. Shaked has over 20 years of professional experience and has been part of the ECI team since 1990. Prior to his current role, Mr. Shaked has held various positions in Research & Development and served as the vice president of the R&D of the Optical Networks Division.
Mr. Shaked holds a B.A. in electrical engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa and an M.Sc. in electrical engineering and computer science from Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Beni Kopelovitz | Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Kopelovitz has 28 years of experience in diverse Research & Development disciplines, as well as many other key management practices in the industry. Beni's experience spans all aspects of product and technology developments in a variety of areas, including digital video, image processing, computer graphics and optical communication. Prior to joining InfoGin, Beni was President and CTO at Lynx Photonic Networks, where his first position was Senior VP of R&D and COO. Beni's previous experience (during the years 1991-2000) was managing the R&D of ECI Telecom's Network System Strategic Business Unit, where he marshaled its staff growth from 20 to about 200 people. Beni's technology accomplishments include a series of significant networking and optical industry firsts.
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